Darth Vader Toaster!

What about starting your day with a small dose of the power of the Dark Side?

$54.99 at the Star Wars Shop

Jedi Ginsu Commercial

But where can I get that cutting pad that can't be cut by the Ginsu?

Stabbing at Leia's

That's why we should train the gifted ones.

I am Vader, Darth Vader... Hilarious!

From one of the best stand-up comedians Eddie Izzard on Lego Star Wars.

Vader: That must be the canteen here. Yeah. There must be a cafeteria downstairs, in between battles where Darth Vader gets, just chilled and go down.. I will have a pan-a-ala-arabia.

Attendant: You will need a tray.

Vader: Do you know who I am?

Attendant: Do you know who I AM?

Vader: This is not the game of "Who the Fuck are you". For I am Vader, Darth Vader, Lord Vader. I can kill you with a single thought.

Attendant: Well you still need a tray.

Vader: No, I will not need a tray. I do not need a tray to kill you. I can kill you with an out-age tray with the power of the Force. The force is strong within me. Even though I could kill you with a tray if I so wished. For I would hack out your neck with the thin bit until your blood flew upon the canteen floor...

Attendant: But the food is hot. You need a tray to put the food on.

Vader: Oh, I see.. the food is hot... I am sorry.. I did not realize... haha.. a-haha.. Oh.. J.. Yes. I though you were challenging me to the fight to the death.

Attendant: Fight to the death? This is the canteen. I work here.

Vader: Yes, but I am Vader, Lord Vader. Everyone challenges me to the fight to the death.

My birthday gifts

Yesterday was my birthday and we had a small party at home. Priscilla brought her Nintendo Wii over and we had a lot of fun swinging the controllers.

The other day Sophie asked me what kind of cake I would like for my birthday, and I said carrot cake. Carrot cake turned out to be one of the most laborious cake to make. We needed to grate 2 cups of carrots and mix in 4 cups of flour to make the dough. It was really heavy. I can take the credit of doing the hardest part of mixing.

The gift. I received 3 gifts. Sophie bought a shirt for me from Abercombie, Vanessa and Jarad bought me a Christmas ornament of a scene from Star Wars: A New Hope - Luke and C3PO are in Ben Kenobi's shed where Kenobi is showing Luke Anakin's light saber. A few sound track from the scene is played when the button on the left is pressed. One of them is one of my favorite line: "It (light saber) is the weapon of choice in a more civilized age of the Old Republic." Another favorite line of mine is "I-am your Fa-ther!" Haha.. I told Vanessa to look for that next year.


The last gift, also the most amazing one, is Star Wars: A Pop-up Guide to the Galaxy. It is a book laying down the main characters and places and trivial of the Star Wars franchise, with amazingly well crafted paper pop-ups. As Amazon.com puts it, "Bestselling pop-up artist and engineer Matthew Reinhart has designed a thirtieth anniversary commemorative edition that comes packed with a variety of novelty features -- pop-ups, working light sabers, pull tabs... "

The best part is on the last page. Turn to this page and you see the head portrait of Darth Vader fold-up. If you half-open the page, you can see the real face of Anakin's wrinkled face underneath the mask. The surprise is the side laps. Each of them flap-open to Darth Vader and Luke charging with their light saber, and the light sabers actually glow! And you can even change the battery after it runs out!!


Thanks to Sylvine who happened to run into it at Borders.

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga

I am not a huge Star Wars fans (I don't have Star Wars poster all over my bedroom), but it seems I have 2 posts in a row about Star Wars.



In Wii you can finally swing a light saber. It is coming in NDS also. Too bad it does not come in PC anymore.

Star Wars Stamps

I went to the post office to send a mail and picked up some stamps. I need stamps to send in my car insurance payment.

When asked for a pack of 20, the post lady asked me whether I had a particular choice. Instinctively I said no, but in a flash I asked "Do you have anything pretty?" She said anything under the glass and inside the book. The first thing that caught my eyes was a pack of Season's knits with lovely paintings of X'mas tree and snowman as if they are knits. Then she showed me an opened book resting on the desk, and it was Yoda all over... Man... they have got a few cool Star Wars stamp sets, and one of them is so cool that I won't be wanting to use them. Since they cost the same as the regular American Flag stamps (the face value of 41 cents a piece), there is no reason to pick anything but Master Yoda.

Here is the link to close-ups of all the Star Wars Stamps.

I though I would use these stamps when I was inside the post office. Now I have decided to keep them and get the Million Falcon and the Clone Troopers altogether as collectibles.

Lightsaber Duels

I was looking up youtube for lightsaber duels. Man.. there are a few amateur-turned professional lightsaber fighters doing marvelous duels there! Here is one of the earliest but fantastic ones. That Ryan Wieber has later taken on other equally fantastic lightsaber fighters in later videos.



Bart and Skinner can't resist the Force in them either:

Lightsabers!!

Holy shit! This is the first toy I gotta buy after I get back to Ipswich!

Lightsaber replicas that glow like a real ones, with digital sounds for power up, idle humming, swing pitches, crashes and power down recorded from the movies!! Man! The sounds are played when you do the actions!! Imagine how cool it is to swing a lightsaber with those "woo.. woo" pitches! The coolest Star Wars gadget of all time!!